CS Weekly Archive > Weekend Read > 9/02/05

Lost in Time

By joshua tyler

2046

Kar Kai Wong (also directed)

2046's intentionally confusing story follows writer Chow Mo Wan (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) in 1966, as he slips in and out of women's lives while simultaneously dreaming up a novel (also entitled "2046"). Chow takes up residence in a hotel, where he starts relationships with a series of women over time -- and writer/director Kar Kai Wong's film really never goes any further than that. The heavily narrated movie is permeated with a deep sense of sadness, but the script never makes any attempt to explain why. Instead we're left with 129 minutes of pregnant, frustrating impressions.

2046
Sony Pictures Classics
Rated R; 123 min.

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Joshua Tyler writes about movies as Editor-in-Chief of CinemaBlend.com and in free newspapers around the country. He has never won an award and would probably be suspicious if he did.

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